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[BIBLIA LATINA]

Biblia, ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata

Venice
heirs of Niccolo Bevilacqua (col. Altobello Salicato)
1574

€500 - €700

4to, [24], 1126 pp, Title within woodcut architectural border, with vignettes of Abraham and Isaac, St. Jerome in his study, and Cain and Abel; over 600 text woodcuts after Hans Holbein, Bernard Salomon, and Pierre Eskrich. Some foxing, otherwise very good copy. Contemporary vellum binding, soiled

Ref. CNCE 5795. Venetian reprint of the 1547 Louvain Vulgate, with illustrations derived largely from woodcuts used in various Lyons editions from 1538 to 1562; cf. Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 62

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